Dr. Mélissa Gauthier
Associate teaching professor
Anthropology
- Status:
- On leave
- Contact:
- Office: COR B240 meligau@uvic.ca 250-721-6254
- Credentials:
- PhD (Concordia)
- Area of expertise:
- Economic anthropology, border ³Ô¹ÏÍø, informal & illicit economies, cross-border trade, Mexico-US borderlands, Mexico, Yucatán
Bio
Mélissa Gauthier specializes in economic anthropology and border ³Ô¹ÏÍø with particular attention to the interplay between state and society occurring via informal markets. Her work is based primarily along the Mexico-United States border and in Yucatán, Mexico.
Interests
Teaching interests
- research methods
- ethnographic research
- economic anthropology
- globalization
Research interests
- informal economies and livelihoods
- borders
- migration
- experiential learning
Courses
- ANTH 200 Cultural and Social Anthropology
- ANTH 260 Introduction to Anthropological Research
- ANTH 314 Economic Anthropology
- ANTH 371 Anthropology of Mexico
- ANTH 372 Economic Underworlds and Globalization
- ANTH 381 Cultural Anthropology Field School Methods
Selected publications
- Gauthier, M. 2024. . In T’áalk’u’Iknalítico: Omniausencias, Omnipresencias y Ubicuidades Mayas, edited by Juan A. Castillo Cocom, 121-139 Astra Ediciones S.A. de C.V, Guadalajara, Jalisco, México.
- Gauthier, M. 2022. , Culture, Vol. 16 (1)
- Gauthier, M. 2020. , Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal, 3(1):70-72.
- Gauthier, M. 2019. , Anthropologica 61(1) : 78-82.
- Gauthier. M. 2015. “Los Comerciantes Hormigas Mexicanos de la Región de El Paso y Ciudad Juárez. Las Tensiones entre la globalización, el aumento de la seguridad y los nuevos regímenes de mobilidad”: 254-283 in Alba C., Matthews G., Lins Ribeiro G. (eds.) La Globalización desde Abajo. La Otra Economía Mundial.. Mexico City: El Colegio de México/Fondo de Cultura Económica.